Backend Engineering Lead (TypeScript /Node.js)

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team (formal or informal)
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript /Node.js
• Good knowledge of industry best practices (SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, DDD, TDD…)
• Proven ability to own and deliver large technical projects with cross-team dependencies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Track record of growing engineers and building high-performing teams
• Ability to balance speed‑of‑delivery with long‑term technical health
• (Desirable) Advanced PostgreSQL — schema design at scale, performance tuning, migrations
• (Desirable) Experience with VueJS or frontend architecture decisions
• (Desirable) Experience with AWS infrastructure (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, ALB)
• (Desirable) Infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, CDK, Helm) at scale
• (Desirable) Observability and SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, on‑call management
• (Desirable) Experience operating in a hyper‑growth or gaming/consumer product company
• (Desirable) Platform engineering or developer experience background

What the job involves

• We’re looking for an Engineering Lead (TypeScript/Node.js) to join our Engineering & Data team. As an Engineering Lead, you'll combine strong individual technical contributions with team leadership
• You'll be responsible for the technical direction of your squad, the growth of your engineers, and the delivery of high‑impact projects. This is a hybrid IC/manager role — you'll still write code, but your leverage is through the team
• Lead the technical direction and architecture for your squad's domain
• Drive design reviews, set coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence
• Own the full delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives
• Build, scale and operate Node.js/TypeScript backend services on AWS/EKS
• Define the infrastructure and reliability strategy for your team's systems
• Partner with Product and Data to translate business goals into technical roadmaps
• Grow engineers through 1:1s, code reviews, mentorship and technical coaching
• Identify systemic risks and drive improvements before they become incidents
• Be an ambassador for engineering culture: psychological safety, pragmatism, and craft
• Our Stack:
• TypeScript ; Node.js ; AWS ; Terraform ; CDK ; Helm